NGO experts comment on close of the first climate talks of the year

3 May 2013

 

Bonn, Germany – May 3, 2013:  NGO experts from the world’s largest network of NGOs working on climate change will brief the media on today at 14.30 on the outcomes of the year’s first session of the United Nations climate negotiations. 

Commenting on key developments of the week will be including growing coalescence around how countries' differing responsibilities and capacities to deal with climate change can and should be measured and the missing urgency around efforts to reduce emissions reductions before 2020:

• Mohamed Adow from Christian Aid
• Jan Kowalzig from Oxfam Germany
• Julie-Anne Richards from Climate Action Network International 

• What: NGO experts comment on the outcome of the first climate negotiations of the year

• When: 14.30, Friday, May 3rd. The press conference will also be webcast live here: http://unfccc4.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/adp02/templ/ovw_live.php?id_kongressmain=241

• Where: United Nations Campus, Langer Eugen (Room 2105) Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany.

 Contact:

For more information or for one-on-one interviews with the NGO experts, please contact Climate Action Network International’s communications coordinator Ria Voorhaar on +49 (0) 157 317 35568 or rvoorhaar@climatenetwork.org. 

Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of over 800 NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels